From F-22 Cockpit to Lockheed Aeronautics’ Corner Office
The most powerful aviation job in America just went to a man who used to fly F-22s for a living. Lockheed Martin has named a former U.S. Air Force Raptor pilot to lead Lockheed Martin Aeronautics — the division that builds the F-22, the F-35, the C-130, and whatever...
Space Force Drops $4 Billion on Andromeda Spy Satellites
The U.S. Space Force has just added four billion dollars to a contract called Andromeda. Most readers will, understandably, have never heard of Andromeda. That is, in some sense, the point. Andromeda is the cover name for what amounts to America’s...
Sikorsky Just Bolted Hellfires Onto the Black Hawk
Sikorsky has just turned the world’s most-built combat helicopter into a gunship. The Connecticut-based Lockheed Martin subsidiary has unveiled what it is calling the Armed Black Hawk — a clean-sheet conversion kit that bolts external pylons, sensor turrets, and...
Resurrected: B-1B Lancer Pulled from the Boneyard
Once a B-1B Lancer goes to the boneyard, it stays in the boneyard. That has been the rule for a quarter of a century. Until last week. The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that a single B-1B has been pulled out of long-term storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in...
Raptors Land at Kadena While Japan Waits for Eagles
The U.S. Air Force has just done something it almost never does: it has put F-22 Raptors on a runway in Japan. A package of Raptors landed at Kadena Air Base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa earlier this week, the most senior officials at Pacific Air Forces...
Super Hornet Strafes an Iranian Tanker With Its Cannon
The U.S. Navy has used a fighter jet to disable an oil tanker. Read that sentence again, because it is the kind of thing that simply does not happen in normal years. On 6 May 2026, an F/A-18E Super Hornet, operating from a U.S. Navy carrier in the Gulf of Oman, lined...
The Maverick Act: An F-14 Tomcat May Fly Again
The Tomcat may fly again. Twenty years after the U.S. Navy retired its last F-14D and sent the survivors to museums, a bipartisan bill working its way through Congress would pull three of those airframes back out — and put one of them back into the sky. It is being...
Russia Flaunts Kh-101 Cruise Missile on Arctic Tu-95MS Patrol
A Russian Tu-95MS Bear strategic bomber has been photographed carrying a Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile over the Barents and Norwegian Seas — the second time in twelve months that Moscow has publicly flaunted its premier stand-off weapon on a long-range patrol...
F-35s May Soon Ship Without Radars
The most expensive weapons programme in history may soon deliver fighter jets without radars. Block 4 development delays have pushed the F-35’s next-generation APG-85 radar so far behind schedule that new production aircraft could roll off the Lockheed Martin...
T-7A Red Hawk Finally Enters Production
After $1.8 billion in Boeing losses, years of ejection seat deficiencies, flight control software problems, and supply chain nightmares, the T-7A Red Hawk has finally crossed the finish line. The Air Force approved the jet for low-rate initial production on May 4,...
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